Here are the winners from the Real Melbourne Iso Awards – a great initiative from a bunch of Melbourne bar peeps to buoy the spirits of the Melbourne bar community during lockdown.
Naren Young returns to writing monthly columns for Bartender mag. Here he looks at the trends in COVID cocktails and why esoteric drinks are best left off the list for now.
In this column from Adelaide, Ollie Margan pays tribute to the city’s pioneering small bar, Proof Laneway Rooms, on its seventh birthday
Former Bartender of the Year and Hobart local, Dan Gregory, delves into his cocktail tomes to revive the specs of Lawlor’s Pousse Cafe and the Punch a la Dwyer
Glenmorangie – fine single malt whisky from the banks of the Dornoch Firth
Nick and Nora’s Melbourne is a new Melbourne bar that opened and shut its doors over just a few weeks thanks to Melbourne’s second lockdown. We can’t wait to see them back behind the stick when restrictions ease.
The Balvenie does things its own way, with a cooperage and malting house on site
Gerald De Los Santos. He ditched engineering to work in hospo and tells how the
support of Merivale has kept him in the game
Bar Peripheral is a bespoke 12-seater cocktail bar with a no standing policy and no menu, located in the quieter residential half of the Adelaide CBD
The DNA of Glen Grant distillery, if you ask master distiller Dennis Malcolm, is tradition and innovation. Established in 1840 by brothers John and James Grant, the distillery and its grounds are without doubt the most spectacular we’ve seen.
It’s likely that Glenfiddich was the first ever single malt you tasted. The distillery began distilling on Christmas Day in 1887, adding The Balvenie distillery in 1892, and five generations later they’re still going
